mitch mcconnell has seen the power of the tea party. i think what mitch mcconnell is doing. i don't think he is taking matt bevin lightly. i think mitch mcconnell is playing the only card he really has. which is that he is going the -- i'm a statesman, i can bring the money back to kentucky, i have the experience route. which he fields i think will be popular in the republican primary. because there are plenty of people over the year, now that he has been, he is a five-term senator. he has brought a lot of money back to the state. he has done a lot of favors for a lot of business people in the state. so he is counting on building a sort of backfire among what's left of the traditional republicans in kentucky. and there are a lot of them to win that primary. >> josh, you are not supposed to be able to run a poll on an incumbent senator that shows him in some kind of tie with the other party's challenger in this case allison grimes. an incredibly powerful poll for her. the incumbent is supposed to be polling ahead. challenger has to play catchup. she is there. >> i don't find

mitch mcconnell, a record number of filibusters, mitch mcconnell, who made it his number one goal to defeat president obama, all of a sudden is going to turn around and be the good guy to the liberal left and cut a deal and are we going to get the numbers we want? i don't think so. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of your screen, share your thoughts on twitter at ed show and on facebook. we appreciate that. coming up, glenn beck, and oscar the grouch have a lot in common. we'll tell you why. >>> plus, paul ryan's new war on women. love your tweets. keep them coming. we're back, social interaction. [ man ] on december 17, 1903, the wright brothers became the first in flight. [ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing is how like us these chimpanzees are. [ laughing ] [ woman ] can you hear me? and you hear your voice? oh, it's exciting! [ man ] touchdown confirmed. we're safe on mars. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hi. [ baby fussing ] ♪ help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can t

i realize that mitch mcconnell is trying to sort of make himself over into a scrappy guy, but mitch mcconnell is mr. magru, in terms of how he's conducted himself as the highest profile guy in the senate. the idea that he's a scrapping knife fighting guy, he may be canny, but i don't think anyone is going to identify with him in a kind of populist way. >> he might be mr. mugu in washington, but he's mr. majestic here in kentucky. the opponents that have gone up against him in the past, they -- he buries them and then he comes back to make sure he stays buried. he plays tough, plays for keep, and he's been doing that his whole career. he's a guy who wins inside the margins and that's where he likes to play. >> i've got to ask you, sam, this week we uncovered some reporting that senator rand paul has been giving speeches that are ripped off from wikipedia. your paper editorialized on the issue today in a sort of withering way, got a comment from a senior adviser to senator paul this afternoon, dismissing the whole thing. do you get the sense that rather this is troubling the rand paul camp, or

mitch mcconnell did his job this week. it was a good thing for the country. >> mcconnell expressed confidence to the extreme republicans and learned the lesson in the showdown shutdown. there's no politics in the second kick of a mule. there will not be a government shutdown. we fully acquainted our new members what a losing strategy that is. john, i think that's true. but there's more likelihood that come january there could be a shutdown of some length. but i do think your party and the country got a wakeup call about screwing around with the debt ceiling. i think people who watch the finance pages, retired people. once you're 75 years old, the people watching know this, you can't get another job and make a ton of money. this is it. your kitty, what you've been able to save and build with interest rates, compound interest, you don't want that screwed with. >> john boehner and mitch mcconnell worked this out, there was never going to be a debt default, never going to happen. i said this on the show many amongst months ago

this time it's mitch mcconnell's campaign manager, jesse benton, allegedly talking about mitch mcconnell. >> between you and me, i'm sort of holding my nose for two years because what we're doing here is going to be a big benefit for rand in '16. that's my long vision. >> holding my nose to work for mitch mcconnell? still seems like the greater sin here is the alleged bribery. paying republican politicians to switch their endorsements? but pretending you're committed to a candidate in public, being his public spokesman and in private saying you're holding your nose about it and you're in it just to help some other guy, and it's that other guy, ick. late this afternoon, in an attempt to make fun out of his miserable turn, the mcconnell campaign posted this picture of jesse benton holding his nose. see, it's all just good kentucky republican fun. seriously. fun. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan. right now? [ male announcer ] whether you're new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about

but what do we know about mitch mcconnell? and he continues to be far to the right of where most voters are. not only that, he really demonstrates what is wrong with washington, the gridlock, the obstruction, the very clearly saying in his own words our number one goal is to try and defeat president obama. that was his stated policy goal. and so i think a lot of voters have just had it with washington as usual. and there is no one really who demonstrates washington as usual as much as mitch mcconnell. the fact that his own campaign manager can't get excited about him is really a symptom rather than a cause of where his troubles are going to be. >> sam stein, you are mitch mcconnell. i know this is a stretch for you. but i want you to put yourself into his mind and body. must you now fire this guy? >> no. you can't fire this guy. part of the reason that jesse benton was brought over to run the mitch mcconnell campaign was to give him the type of cache with the rand paul, ron paul crowd. he's ron paul's son-in-law. this is not s

. >>> plus, karl rove launches an assault on ashley judd to protect his pal mitch mcconnell. >> her own grandmother says she is a hollywood liberal. >> we'll tell you why old turd blossom is so desperate. fox news will always have a steve doocy. >> face-lift perhaps? >> good to have you with us, folks. thanks for watching. this opening story tonight, i'm telling you, i'm going to try to maintain my poise here. this should be a day of celebration for conservatives as they continue to chip away at the backbone of america. >> we're announcing that we are moving forward with a change to our national delivery schedule. the postal service delivery schedule will consist of six days of package delivery and five days of mail delivery. >> this story is everything i don't like about republicans. the slow death of the united states post office. folks, its under way. and americans just seem to sit back and well, let's accept it. that's the way it is. this once proud american institution will no longer deliver first class mail on saturday starting this summer. aren't we proud? moving forward now. and

this is the mitch mcconnell race and jesse benton is mitch mcconnell's campaign manager. listen. >> between you and me, i'm sort of holding my nose for two years because what we're doing here is going to be a big benefit to rand in '16 so that's my long vision. >> he doesn't deny this is his voice talking about holding his nose as he works for mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell and jesse benton posted pictures to show they are trying to make a check out of this. it isn't a joke. >> it hurts mitch mcconnell more than jesse benton. mitch mcconnell is a measurrcen politician. whatever it takes to win, he does. that's been his m.o. that's politics about winning and mitch mcconnell wants to win. he decided the only way to prevent from losing a primary challenge is see if pauls would help. they cut a deal. the pauls are helping. is this a marriage of convenience? yes. is this a marriage of love? no one believes that mitch mcconnell loves the paul world or that the paul world loves mitch. they cut a deal. it is what it is. it hurts mcconnell because it gives him primary challenger

this is why, for everything you heard from mitch mcconnell, you heard from republicans, like mitch mcconnell, in the last 24 to 48 hours. we are not going to go down the road. i am skeptical. i have my doubts. the game ted cruz plays. takes obama care and takes the shut down. we have to force the shutdown. over obama care. what's coming from the other side. what plays into cruz's hand. from the rest of the republicans who don't want to do that. they're not disputing the policy. they're not saying, well, no. we should try to acknowledge, obama care, should be working with obama care. they're arguing on tactics. that's what ted cruz wants. he wants an argument within the republican party, tactics where he is able to set himself up, test of purity, voice of purity. if you are a real conservative, like me, who really wants to take it to the administration, and fight obama care, this is the way to do it. hey, look the other guys who won't go with me. not because i'm selling out the ideology of conservatism. i still see that dynamic prevailing right now. >> but, a mitch mcconnell in robert's inter

i'd like you to respond to that fundraising letter of mitch mcconnell. i mean, are things going to change? are we going to see the same old mitch? >> look, at the end of the day, what that legislation did is made it easier for some cabinet appointees to take their jobs. that's important. it's going to speed up the process in the senate. that's important. but at the end of the day, ed, this country faces enormous economic crises. we've got to deal with global warming. we've got to deal with education. we have to deal with deficit reduction. we are not going to be able to do what the american people want if we have to get 60 votes. and as a result of that agreement, we're going to continue to have to get 60 votes. and that's why i voted against it. >> isn't mr. mcconnell showing it's going to be the same attitude? he beat the liberals. >> no, i think it will. look, here is what has happened. historically, there was a gentleman's agreement in the senate, and that is that you will not use the filibuster requiring 60 votes unless it was something really you f

it is up to mitch mcconnell. i don't know if he will cave because he might be looking at it from his position as running for his seat in kentucky. he might think this actually helps me to nationalize the race in kentucky. for mitch mcconnell, if it means destroying the senate, he'll do it if it means getting elected to it. >> you don't even have to filibuster anymore. you just have to threat ton filibuster. these men can't keep up with wendy davis, right? it is not like they even have to do the work of filibustering. well now it is like i'm going to take your pen. i'm going to take your pen! we'll go off and talk about it. this is folly, this is drama. you might as well go see the new super man movie. this is a washington drama. nothing is going to change. i guarantee it. >> i think it is so crass that mitch mcconnell may use this to fund raise off of as ryan points out a senate staffer said mcconnell actually wants the nuclear option to get put in place? it would help him raise money with the base and not negoti

mitch mcconnell understands what it means to govern. he looked and said, yeah, i'm being challenged on my right and i'm running for re-election, but the country is at stake, and i'm in the leadership. boehner can't get it done. no one can get it done. i have to step in. >> he also took a long time. >> he hung back a very long time. >> there was a front page story on "the new york times" that said the republican party was losing the chance to retake the senate. mitch mcconnell's no dummy. he wants to be majority leader. this was really damaging the party's chances going into 2014. he made a calculation. he said, let's get this in the rearview mirror. >> start governing. >> but frank's right. to reward john boehner for standing tough as he drove the party's image into disarray is ridiculous, but that's where we are right now. >> luke, let me ask you about relations between the house republicans and senate republicans. if we saw anything in the last couple days, it was a schism within a schism, which is to say real tension between the lowe

the stunningly stupid staff of mitch mcconnel. here is a letter that his staff wrote to the assistant secretary of military affairs. i would appreciate your review and response i have enclosed a copy for your information please direct any in inquiries sincerely mitch mcconnell. i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt this is the kind of letter that the staff writes all the time and he never sees. all indications are that the letter was written by a young staffer. the name and initials are those of a staffer who graduated from college just last year. i have never known someone that junior on staff to write such a letter from some senior staff. it is asking if guantanamo bay detainees are getting veteran's benefits but the enhanced benefits of the post 9/11 gi bill. mitch mcconnell's staff is wondering if the obama administration is giving benefits to the people that blew up america. the question did not originate in his office. the question came from a person who wrote to mitch mcconnell. below is the opening portion of that

and they were, the people like mitch mcconnell. and at the last minute boehner and the president said look let's move on. i give credit to mitch who i normally don't salute much, but he basically said this is going to be a catastrophe unless we change our position. >> right. you now -- >> and they don't like that. >> this civil war that this whole episode revealed has gotten worse to the extent that you cite mitch mcconnell as the guy that prevented the republicans from pulling everybody else with him off the cliff. today the senate conservative fund endorsed the primary opponent. so there's no white flag for peace in the party. things have gotten worse. you have what eric erickson is saying. >> he basically said kiss off. he did. i have to hand him credit for the way he responded. >> he said kiss off, but this is not going anywhere. this fight, and when we come back january 15th, february 7th, the republicans still have to -- >> let's go to a tea party expert that on this show. matt kibe. he said a split in the republican party is

so who is the whore, in your opinion, is it ted cruz or mitch mcconnell? >> well, that was with regard to people in washington generally. you know, it was thomas jefferson who said, martin. >> i understand that, mr. klayman. i was wondering if i could take your very words and ask you, which of those two, mr. cruz or mr. mcconnell, is, in your opinion, a whore? >> in terms of how i would characterize it, mitch mcconnell has sold out the american people. i does not represent the interests of the conservative movement, the libertarian movement or any other movement. and whether it's mcconnell or whether it's president obama or whoever, they're representing their own proper interests in washington. and it's not the interests of the people. and that's why i said, i was referring to thomas jefferson as when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. when the government fears the people, there is liberty. right now our grievances are not being heard by either political party. and frankly, they're all whores. >> so you've confirmed to us that your view is m

he's got an enemy in mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell has a tea party opponent. and he's a pretty smart guy. if he decides he wants to make life miserable for ted cruz, he k but on the other hand, he's not there to legislate, he's not there to be a member of the club. he gets his power from his martyrdom. >> so well said. i tell you, almost every demagogue has used righteous indignation as their plea. i've been screwed. they weren't strong like i am. righteous indignation. he's got that hurt, evangelical look in his face. >> he said we could have won this fight if if hadn't been for all those wimps in the senate, that the house stood strong. and so, as howard said, he is unbowed here. the good news is, is that for everybody else, other than ted cruz, every other republican who went along, was pushed along, there is no reward for this carjacking. there is only pain. at the end of the day, the republican brand is at an all-time low. the internal tensions, the civil war within the republican party has not been resolved. i think it's been exacerbated and will continu

my suspicion is that opinions of mitch mcconnell are bakley baked in the cake. the guy has been around for quite a long time. people in kentucky know who he is. kentuckiens like him. but if you had the mind-set, this reinforced the theory. if el thought he was a good politician, i don't know if this necessarily dissuedes you. >> the strange this ink to me, at least, listening to this conversation, is that it was not among friends over a beer, where you might be inclined to say, my god, i'm holding my nose for the next two years. there was a certain underlying hostility in that discussion, and then he drops this bomb like, play psychiatrist. what did you think of it as you listened to it? >> i mean, it's pretty standard practice that you should never really say things like that. you can shouldn't speak like that in any real company except for maybe your mom, your therapist or spouse unless you're read,for it toss out. the political community in ka is ultimately pretty small, so it's a mistake and probably means he's said it to other people also. >> did you real i

mitch mcconnell and harry reid are currently in discussions. there are rumors circulating that a deal is in. we could have some kind of resolution. but you sit across people in the house who, as you know, are determined to oppose the president on everything. so what are the likelihood, what is the likelihood that something passes before the deadline this week? >> martin, it's time for the moderate republicans, and i'll talk to a number of them, who say that their conference is divided and they really want to pass a bill that will be a clean cr, and raise the debt ceiling. it's time for them to really stand and be as loud as the tea parties are. and so i'm hopeful that speaker boehner will put country over party policies and politics and say that he's going to put this vote to the floor. because it will pass. there's a majority of votes now to pass. now, my hope as a backstop that those same individuals, moderate republicans, 200 democrats have already signed a motion to discharge petition, which will compel the vote to go to the floor of the ho

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they're just curious. >> down to mitch mcconnell now. he's getting some heat on the right from the tea party right. essentially saying he's a sellout, he is too much of a paul and that he hasn't taken the fight to obama or obama care. how real is that noise inside of his home state? >> oh, this is very real. first of all, we have a very, very articulate impressive tea party candidate who is taking it to him. i mean, this is kind of the definition of political quick stand sand. mitch mcconnell no matter what he does, he keeps sinking. he alienates one side or the other. he is smart enough to know that for instance, you can't defund obama care. i i listened to your last segment. he knows you can't risk shutting the government down over health care law. that's his position as a responsible governor. but every time he talks like that, the tea party is down his throat saying you're a traitor to us. this is why he is in such a difficult spot, and those of us who are supporting alison lundergan grimes are enjoying the schadenfreude because he i

joy, the idea that mitch mcconnell and john cornyn who has basically been riding around in the clown car with ted cruz, the fact that they came out yesterday and said we are not -- we're not going to do this crazy filibuster, we are going to go forward with the house bill and effect ifly sort of admit that they're not getting behind the government shutdown strategy in a very sort weird round-about way, i think may be a good sign. then again it's the senate. as we know, the senate is the place where semi rational actors stay and have no sway over the people in the house. >> the crazy -- the crazy bag of dosed up we feasels are really the house. in the senate it looks like they have decided the kids have played out in traffic long enough. i think this is because of ted cruz. you've had this long vacuum of conservatism where there wasn't a political leader so into that vacuum came the talk radio right wing. and now in the transition back to wanting temporal power you have people like ted cruz who emulate the talk radio guys but have power because they're in the house, they're in the sen

." >> minority leader mitch mcconnell saying another government shutdown is off the table. he told the national review, quote, one of my favorite sayings is an old kentucky saying. there's no education in the second kick of a mule. the first kick of the mule was in 1995. the second one was the last 16 days. a government shutdown is off the table. we're not going to do it. but senator ted cruz is not ruling that out. >> i would do anything, and i will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care, and i think our focus should not be on d.c. politics. it should be on the people who are getting hurt. >> all right. so here are the key dates that we're watching. december 13th, the deadline for the new budget report for the house and senate. january 15th, the deadline for funding the government. and the debt ceiling deadline, that comes on back on february the 7th. i want to bring in our company, karen tumulty and perry bacon. great to see both you have as we move through the rundown. karen, back to the president's agenda, the budget, immigration, the f

so lemar alexander gave mitch mcconnell an alibi. it wasn't mitch, he was at my house that night. i was the one, coincidentally not up for re-election or a primary challenge, who stuck the pork in there. of course, mitch mcconnell and leid wrote the text of this bill together. and even though mcconnell's office said he played no role in securing the language, if mcconnell didn't want it, it would not have been in there. all of that said, i an happy to see 27 republicans in the house voting for an infrastructure project that creates jobs. now, if we could just rustle up votes for the bill that president obama presented in march of this year for the nation's crumbling infrastructure, we'd be getting somewhere. only duracell quantum has a hi-density core. and that means more fuel, more power, more performance than the next leading brand. new duracell quantum. trusted everywhere. >>> big election news last night that should make you think hard about the democrats chance to retake the house in 2014. there are, in fact, two americas and they come out for different elections. what that m

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mitch mcconnell and him holding his nose. it seems like jesse benton could say anything he wants about mitch mcconnell and he won't get fired because he needs the rand paul people. >> if you're looking for leadership, you won't get it for any senator who is up for re-election next year. that applies to the entire house of representatives, they're all scared. i don't know where the leadership is going to come from. in new jersey we know every conversation is recorded. >> that's right. it's not an activist from iowa on the other end of the wire. >> you have to be very, very careful. >> what's interesting about this exchange is that's what people assumed anyway when jesse benton was hired. mcconnell has been very, very strategic knowing he was facing a tough re-election fight. people always want to challenge the leader of the party, no matter what statement they're from. he made all these smart hires. everybody assumed that's what he's doing. now you have him on tape saying that. at the same time, jesse is not going anywhere, he

the agreement from mitch mcconnell that republicans -- the agreement with mitch mcconnell that the republicans will even ask each other to consider doing that, that agreement is of course a handshake agreement. >> it won't be a handshake. we tried that last time. it didn't work. >> yeah. it's a handshake. there's a handshake deal this time, which is the only progress toward getting anything done. it's a handshake deal. and a handshake deal did not work last time and that should have told you something. and that is the apex of senator harry reid's achievement today after those months, those years of promises that this time he was really going to do it. but hey, at least we'll be able to see them get nothing done faster now. the stuff that they can't do anything on is just going to fly by from here on out. so we have that speed to look forward to. t a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one had to be bulky. or that you had to print from your desk. at least, nobody said it to us. introducing the business smart inkjet all-in-one series from brother. easy to use. it's the ultimate combination of speed,

. >> mitch mcconnell has always taken every opponent he's had very seriously. there is -- whether it's his primary poeopponent or general election opponent, my only advice is pack a lunch but he's probably one of the best campaigners in the country and i think he's heavily favored in both elections. >> mitch mcconnell saying they will not go down this path again to shut down the government. can he really mean that, though, with the way the house gop conference is sort of -- rises up and is very pro insurrection to a degree? >> i've heard this from several gop leaders since the shutdown stopped. i think if you say it enough times, they're hoping it's true. saying they learned something from this. they won't do this again. we were just talking about off air the mcconnell quote. they want -- there's experience that comes with seeing this. that said, i think this does put mitch mcconnell in a better position in his state. now he's looking more to his left and he looks like a compromiser which is one of the things that they were saying he is not so this helps him, i

mitch mcconnell has been lying to the people of kentucky for the last four years about the affordable care act and those lies are catching up to him now because people are beginning to understand exactly the benefits of the affordable care act and it is not what mitch mcconnell has been representing over the last few years. we've already had almost 400 businesses representing 67,000 people sign up or begin the application process in kentucky. we've had almost half of our uninsured, 280,000 people have visited the website. we've got a 20,000 individuals who are now enrolled in insurance policies through it. so we're having a wonderful experience. and the more businesses and the more individuals that find out that the benefits are actually there, and they're telling their neighbors and their friends, this is really going to be bad for mitch mcconnell. >> sir, it could insulate him, though, and i should have said successfully primaried by matt bevins, because we know that the tea party is dead set against obama care. so if it starts working and people in kentucky reap some benefits early

mitch mcconnell has never been that popular in kentucky. in the state of kentucky, partly because he's from louisville, is not that popular. >> joy reid and howard fineman, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, paul krugman joins me he to talk about whatever he wants. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, the england that oscar wild would not recognize. england has gone from throwing oscar wild in jail for a crime of homosexuality to this week's vote house of commons overwhelmingly voting for legalizing same-sex marriage. that's coming up. there's nothing better than salon color, full of beautiful highlights and lowlights. that's why nice'n easy builds dimension into every shade. so here's a challenge: love the gorgeous dimension of nice'n easy or we'll pay for a salon color. take the salon challenge, from nice'n easy. >>> our big yet tomorrow is paul krugman who will join me next. that's why i'm wearing the glasses. it makes me look smart. i'm talking like nobel prize winners. >>> and it turns out, begging works. yo

for now all eyes on the dynamic duo of senators harry reid and mitch mcconnell. on sunday reid proposed a long-term deal. the proposal came after diagrams rejected a republican plan drafted by senator susan collins which wooch locked in deep on sequester cuts in exchange for opening the government through march. reid's offer met with chilly response from same senate republicans who claim to want a deal. >> here is what i'm worried about, a deal coming out of the senate a majority of republicans can't vote for in the house. that really does compromise speaker boehner's leadership. after all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise john boehner as leader of the house? >> i don't know. yes. maybe. senator graham raises a fair point. where is the raucous house caucus in the deal making? most data points to disarray. after reviewing his options over chinese takeouts and cigarettes, how angry the stock markets get on voting on a bill in the lower chamber. speaking of which global financial leaders warned this weekend of massive disruption the world over shoul

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mitch mcconnell had to face himself on "meet the press" today. watch this. >> there are restrictions now on the kinds of activities that, for example, a 501c-3 and 4 organizations, charitable organizations are being abused by not just people on the right, but most of the so-called charitable organizations that are involved in political activity in this country who are, in my judgment, involved in arguable violations of their tax-free status and violations of the campaign law, happen to be groups on the left. so that is a problem. >> big groups on the left, oops, this is how he responded to the 26-year-old clip. >> i was wrong 25 years ago, i've been right for the last two decades. >> kind of like us, huh, martin? >> well, what can you say to that, honestly? it's ludicrous. and the whole idea, ed, about them never mentioning the name "karl rove" in relation to 501c-4s is just sacrilegious. if you want to have a discussion about -- >> this morning karl -- >> as harry reid said, what has karl rove done to improve the social welfare -- >> well, this

mitch mcconnell has never been that popular in kentucky. in the state of kentucky, partly because he's from louisville, is not that popular. >> joy reid and howard fineman, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, paul krug man joins me he to talk about whatever he wants. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, the england that oscar wild would not recognize. england has gone from throwing oscar wild in jail for a crime of homosexuality to this week's vote house of kmons overwhelmingly voting for same-sex marriage. that's coming up. so, beginning today, my son brock and his whole team that's coming up. gsame-sex marr. that's coming up. asame-sex marr. that's coming up. lsame-sex marr. that's coming up. isame-sex marr. that's coming up. zsame-sex marr. that's coming up. isame-sex marr. that's coming up. ngsame-sex mar. that's coming up. same-sex marr. that's coming up. co overwhelmin voting for legalizing same-sex marriage. that's coming up. m overwhelmingy voting for legalizing same-sex marriage. that's coming up. m overw

until mitch mcconnell gives them a vote, the nlrb is in limbo. now, why would anyone want the nlrb to be in limbo? big business wants nothing more than for the nlrb to not issue decisions, and conservatives want nothing more than to just quietly destroy and render permanently inoperable the government body that oversees labor law. they want to make it thdisappea without anyone noticing. so far they've been able to do that. today at that news conference, those lawmakers featured workers whose lives are in limbo because the nlrb decisions effecting them are just out to lunch. here's kathleen autsen, a baker at panera bread in michigan, who works the night shift, describing the process of trying to organize her fellow workers. >> we had to attend meetings where the boss, a good christian, decided we didn't need a union because he would take care of us. during this process we heard about how we would have open talks, we heard about how they would take care of us and then they started their terror campaign. >> in march of 2012, those workers formed a

we have seen mitch mcconnell in the comments he's given suggests he's more worried about the general election than primary. it's important to take a step back. we have seen interparty fighting, prominent republican senators getting primary challenges and losing, robert bennett in utah in 2010, but what is striking here is that mitch mcconnell is the senate's number one republican. he's the minority leader and this is a significant development, i believe that you have one prominent outside group, certainly saying tha they want mitch mcconnell defeated and other conservatives in the wake of the budget deal, debt ceiling raising piling on mitch mcconnell and this is the inevitable infighting and mcconnell has a very conservative candidate who wanted to make o bbama a one te president. >> we mentioned jim demint. this is what orrin hatch had to say about that group. >> heritage used to be the conservative group helping rpz. there's a real question on minds of many republicans, not just myself, but is heritage going to go so political it doesn't amount to anything any more? >> heritage an